What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

[Caesar of Bread]

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopédies

Link to video.

I played that on the piano once, in front of my school. The next person played Giorno's Theme from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure.

 

[Kyriakos]

Sue me…

Or listen to this;

Hey, I didn't mean it was a bad idea to bump it
In fact it was excellent imo.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Wow, this thread was started 14 years ago...

It was created the year before I became a moderator, and was one of the threads I moved here, so the arts-related threads would be all together in a forum dedicated to the arts.

Sad to see that some of the videos aren't available anymore, or are geoblocked (seriously, geoblocking Canadians from classical music videos?! ).

 

[Ajidica]

I'm sure Authentic Canadian Content is allowed.
Coo-roo-coo-coo-coo-coo!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've never been into that kind of "comedy". And their map shows Newfoundland connected to the mainland. It isn't. It's an island.

 

[thetrooper]

Learning the piano is easy peasy, amirite?

 

[thetrooper]

Ok, I posted this piece also in the ot thread but I guess we can have it here too;

Amazing performance again by Gert van Hoef. The climax here is otherwordly and I finally appreciate the phrase ‘pull out all the stops’.

 

[BOBAH1]

Pierro

 

[Elephantium]

Sibelius is one of my favorite composers:

 

[thetrooper]

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ok, I posted this piece also in the ot thread but I guess we can have it here too;

Amazing performance again by Gert van Hoef. The climax here is otherwordly and I finally appreciate the phrase ‘pull out all the stops’.

To do all that from memory - memorizing it in mind and muscle-memory - would have taken a lot of hours of practice. I speak from experience, from all those Bach pieces I crammed into my memory for the Western Board of Music exams I took. I would have been allowed to use the sheet music, but I didn't want to get used to having a crutch like that. If I'd lost my place and didn't know instinctively where to go from there, I'd have been screwed. So I memorized all of it - every scale, every piece I had to play for those exams. And as the video shows, it's not only what the hands and fingers do, it's the feet - heel and toe. There's a reason he's wearing shoes like that - it's to make that heel and toe playing faster and easier, to stay on track.